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Small Business Development
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Regional Small Business
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Client Need: The Council of Small Business Organisations of Australia (COSBOA) was commissioned by the Department of Transport and Regional Services to examine issues facing regional small businesses. The final report was very well received and was publicly launched by then Minister Alex Somlyay.
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SES Director Kim Houghton worked with COSBOA to undertake the research project and write the public report: Jobs in Our Regions: Building on the Small Business Base. The book provides the first comprehensive analysis of small business in regional Australia designed for people and organisations committed to local employment growth and regional economic development.
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Small Business Profiles
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Client Need: The Wide Bay Burnett Area Consultative Committee needed an evaluation of competitiveness issues facing the Wide Bay region's small businesses. The final report was widely distributed throughout the region, and forms part of the region's website.
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SES worked with COSBOA again on this assessment of opportunities and threats facing small businesses in the Wide Bay Burnett region in Queensland. The project involved preparation of an overview of the region's labour market trends using existing data, along with a carefully constructed series of surveys and interviews with small businesses across the region.
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The project developed a Small Business Profile for the region highlighting training needs (for both small business operators and employees), small business support needs and constraints on small business growth.
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Business self assessment kit
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Client Need: The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) saw a need to help indigenous people applying for funding through its Business Development Program. The Commission identified a specific need for a handbook helping applicants assess the viability of their business idea.
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CREEDA Projects asked SES to prepare a Business Self Assessment Kit Good Business - or Just a Good Idea, a booklet designed to help intending small business people see if they might be able to run a successful business. The Kit was prepared for ATSIC and has been written in straightforward language with an easy-to-use style. The Kit includes:
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an interactive quiz - are you ready to run your own business?;
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a quick assessment of the viability of the business idea;
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step-by-step business and financial planning; and
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extensive contact lists for help.
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The Kit was launched to ATSIC's State Commercial Units at their national meeting in Rockhampton on 5 April 2000.
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